contests

With the encouragement of his friend, Herbie spends days writing poems about food for a contest and although he does not win, he does find an appreciative audience.

While working on a project for a contest at school, fourth grader Emerald comes to appreciate her family's very small, cramped New York City apartment.

A very, very boastful kangaroo brags that it can jump higher than anyone, but a teeny, tiny kangaroo cleverly wins the jumping contest.

Billy is disappointed when his father doesn't show up to help him catch a frog for the frog-jumping competition at school, but the one he and his mother catch wins the championship and Billy begins to accept his father's absence.

While attending a New Hampshire culinary academy, North Carolina high schooler Nora suspects someone of sabotaging the academy's televised cooking competition.

Twelve-year-olds Duncan Dorfman, April Blunt, and Nate Saviano meet at the Youth Scrabble Tournament where, although each has a different reason for attending and for needing to win, they realize that something more important is at stake than the grand prize.

Middle-schooler Nate Wright must compete with a new rival, the "perfect" Artur, for the grand prize of a customized skateboard in their scout troop contest.

Gilda Joyce's best friend Wendy Choy qualifies to compete in an international piano competition in Oxford, England, and Gilda is determined to go as well--as a page turner.

Twins Dawn and Dusk learn to admire their crochety old grandmother when they take on the task of training her to play hockey after she wins the chance to shoot a goal for one million dollars, but when she dies before the contest, the twins must decide who is going to take her place.

Eleven-year-old Max Carmody feels he has met his destiny when he sees an announcement for "The Funniest Kid in America" contest, but his quest to create a video that will get him into the running turns into a comedy of errors.